Hey @grok is it true that China rejected a shipment of beef from Argentina as recently as this year after detecting banned antibiotics linked to severe health risks?
Yes, in March 2026 Chinese customs rejected a 22-ton beef shipment from Argentina’s ArreBeef plant after detecting chloramphenicol. This antibiotic has long been banned in food animals worldwide due to its link to aplastic anemia, a rare but severe and potentially fatal blood disorder that can occur even at low exposure levels in susceptible people. Argentine authorities investigated possible false positives or contamination, but the rejection by China is documented.
After all the drama and debate about Ranchers and Beef and lowering cost of the American consumer, he finally says the quiet part out loud.
and its so condescending.
Beef Cattle currently cost $2000’ish for a calf at 500lbs. You have to feed it 25 lbs of hay per day for 30 months when it is ready to harvest. That’s (9,100 lbs / 900 lbs per bale, for 30 months) 304 bales total at a cost of $1,700. NO OTHER costs, I’m into the cow for $3,700 at 1400lbs full grown. I gross approx 450 lbs of meat. Thats $8.23 cents a pound., in the box.
In this equation there are:
No slaughter costs
No operating costs
No vet/transport costs
No land/property taxes/insurances
No upkeep
No diesel
No seed for the fields
No fencing
No labor, no profit for us working 365 days a year. (Yes, cows eat on holidays)
Nothing!!
For sake of argument, let’s say all these above costs are offset by selling my “premium cuts”, (which isn’t even close….BUT….lets just say for this exercise, it did.
$8.22 a pound.
Now: Please tell me how ground beef I can buy for $7-8 in the store with that retail store making a profit? They have to keep their doors open to. Let’s call it a 25% profit margin (and that’s LOW). That’s them buying ground at $5/$6.
I’ll let y’all form your own conclusions about how this is done. You CUT corners. Period, end of story. Ain’t no other way round it. Next time you buy beef, remember this very basic math and ask yourself what exactly you are putting in your body for $7-8 bucks.
Do yourself a favor and establish a relationship with your local rancher/farmer that you KNOW doesn’t cut corners AND works their brains out 365 days a year just trying to do the right thing to better their community. 🙏🥩🇺🇸
He allows 600k Chinese students to take American university slots so Jews can censor TikTok.
He uses American diplomacy to help Morocco invade Spain to punish them for opposing Israel.
Now he is sacrificing American beef producers to help Israel’s South American colony.
Literally sacrificing America itself to build the global Jewish Empire.
TRUMP: “We'll by Argentinian beef.”
Reporters:' What about the US farmers who are suffering?'
Trump: “Argentina is fighting for its life. Do you understand me? They’re dying.”
He says this as 77 American cattle producers are going out of business in the US per day.
I’ve been spending little to no time reading news and social media while adventuring over the last eight days. Today is a down day before traveling up to the St. Lawrence Seaway - so I did some catching up. Bad idea.
At the ports, foreign beef loads clear on paperwork and at most a quick look at the boxes. Any real inspection is a rarity. There is no routine DNA verification that the frozen block is actually from a cow.
Europe actually got caught grinding horsemeat into “beef” for months in 2013 for this exact reason: blended frozen trim is where anything can hide. They got caught solely because of dumb luck and chance, not because of any kind of diligence.
Worse: the longer a foreign plant goes uncaught, the less often we even give a glancing inspection of their shipments. “Trust” builds.
We reward the fox for every night we don’t see them take a chicken. Even though chickens are missing…
Plus this allegedly “high quality” imported trim can’t be sold or eaten on its own. Packers (the foreign owned ones that control 85 percent of the market) blend it with fat trim and actual hamburger from American cattle, then sell the mix under one “ground beef” label.
Foreign leftovers and filler mixed from thousands of animals (maybe cows?) mixed with thousands of American cattle.
An American steer is born here, raised here, and processed here.
Know your rancher.
It’s fine if Trump wants to celebrate importing scrap mystery meat and price fixing; the least our Congress could do is require it be labeled so you can choose whether or not you eat it. MCCOOL matters, no matter what the Farm Bureau or Cattlemen’s associations say.
Before he became a full-time cheerleader for the Trump FBI, Dan Bongino understood that the government’s demand for terrorists far outweighs the supply.
Hiring 3 government informants to drive a mentally unstable woman to Home Depot and hand her $200 to buy a 9-volt, acetone, and nails isn’t “disrupting terrorism.”
The Make-A-Wish FBI Director is as stupid as the people his agency entraps.